Quotes About Purpose

What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else?

It's almost as if I had to stop running in order to see myself clearly, and what I see is a person who's been driving toward a goal for so long she can't remember why she set it in the first place.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

Sometimes all you need to live one more day is a good reason to stick around.  Ã¢â'¬Â¢

To live was always a conditional verb.

I wondered what the hell had convinced me to live at the end of someone else's life rather than live my own

What's left unfinished? What is it that you haven't done yet, that you need to do before you leave this life?

If you don't know where you've come from, how in Heaven's name will you ever figure out where you're going?

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.' – VOLTAIRE, FOR AND AGAINST

The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.

What was the point of having a life if you never had the chance to live it?

Life is a bunch of cells walking around with a common purpose.

I am; I was. I want to be.

I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.

I like ambition. I like someone who gets up in the morning and has a purpose. A real purpose. I have one. I want whoever I love to have one. I always look forward to breakfast.

To live your best life now, you must learn to trust God's timing, you may not think He's working, but you can be sure that right now, behind the scenes, God is arranging all the pieces to come together to work out His plan for your life.

Don't just accept whatever comes your way in life. You were born to win; you were born for greatness; you were created to be a champion in life.

Christ did not come to earth simply to be our moral teacher. If that were His only mission, He could have come as He did in former times, as the Angel of the Lord, without our flesh and blood to encumber Him. Instead, He had to become like us so that He could raise us up to be like Him.

To think what is true, to sense what is beautiful and to want what is good, hereby the spirit finds purpose of a life in reason.

It can hardly be possible, that Nature should have given us a tongue, in order that the gratification of a few papillae on it should be the aim of a laborious life, or the cause of wretchedness to others.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens... The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking for fresh nourishment.

We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song is their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens. The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

I shall never shine 'til some animating occasion calls forth all my powers.

God is willing to suffer to get what He wants; evil is not.